Might be worth doing an experiment to isolate where the iLinks are causing trouble by using the regular housing for one segment (eg shifter-to-headtube-stop) and iLink for the other (chainstay stop to derailleur). In addition to the cable tension/friction things plpete mentioned, you should give the iLinks a once-over to make sure that they are all pressed tightly up against each other, and that you don't have any liner sticking out at the stop that goes into the shifter.

Free shipping, but it will take time to make it to the US. Like a month+

Interesting note about the iLinks - lots of guys here are running them with DA / SRAM / Campy without issues. Did it shift properly before you tried the new SRAM cassette?

Thanks for the link. I just bought myself a scale!

It was jumping a little bit with the ultegra cassette as well. Have talked to another one of my friends and they are going to help me out and take another look into it. My buddy works at my LBS and got me an OG 1090 11-28 cassette for free. Wanted the XG, but free is free. The thing is LOUD! Hoping to get it all sorted out soon

Cables are funny things. My rear shifting was a bit off recently. Cleaned and lubed cables and seemed to be no snagging - it ran freely. Still shifted badly so installed new outer as last resort not expecting it to help and......shifted perfectly

The sram cassette shifted like garbage even after using standard cable housing. The mechanic who helped me install my ilinks told me to bring it back to his place and he would trade me my Sram cassette for a new DA he had laying around since he uses Sram. He will also install the ilinks back on and it should work better. Here's to hoping it comes out perfect this time, now that I'm going back with a shimano cassette.

Unless the Sram cassette is beat to hell I don't see how it will make a significant difference. Have you checked your chain for significant stretch? Chains wear much faster when compared to a cassette and can cause shitty shifting.

Good idea. 3k miles on one chain might cause different wear and stretch than 3k miles on another chain. It really depends on the type of riding you do and the type of rider you are. Cleaning the chain regularly doesn't hurt either.

Well the ilinks are back on along with a DA cassette and it shifts on point. So glad that was taken care of. Will hopefully get some pictures up soon. Going to try and enjoy riding it instead of staring at it like I have been the last several weeks lol

Make sure you ride it today or Sunday. The weather is perfect, we are headed to Hagg lake, around the lake and back to Beaverton. Nice early season base effort, 63 miles, lots of hills. I bought another set of FS CC's, this will be the longest ride with them, so far so great.

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